Electrician

Vicksburg Forest Products; Gloster (MS); On-site; USD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading lumber manufacturing company in Gloster, Mississippi, is seeking a skilled maintenance technician to perform essential electrical systems and maintenance duties. This role involves troubleshooting and repairing equipment, ensuring maximum facility uptime to meet production goals. Candidates should have at least 1 year of maintenance experience and familiar with technologies including hydraulics and pneumatics. This position requires flexibility for shifts, including nights, weekends, and holidays, in a dynamic work environment.

Qualifications

• 1 year of previous maintenance experience.
• Experience in an industrial environment.
• Willingness to work nights, weekends, and holidays as required.

Responsibilities

• Install, troubleshoot, and repair equipment.
• Respond to maintenance issues throughout the plant.
• Undertake preventative maintenance program for equipment.
• Read blueprints and schematics to repair equipment.

Skills

Maintenance experience

Experience with Allen Bradley PLC5 and/or Control Logix

Knowledge of hand and power tools

Mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic knowledge

Experience with VFDs, PLCs, MCCs, HMIs

Experience with high voltage (600-23,000 volts)

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

Gloster Forest Products, LLC (GFP) is buildinga state-of-the-artlumber mill in Gloster, Mississippi.

The new mill will require over 1 million tons of timber annually to produce about 250 million board feet. The facility will belocatedon 65 acres (about the area of a large shopping mall) andrepresentsa corporate investment of over $200 million, creating 131 jobs and supporting anadditional200 indirect jobs whenoperatingat full capacity.

Family-owned andoperated, GFP is dedicated to its employees who are passionate about delivering unmatched, high-quality lumber from a world-class lumber manufacturing facility.

Gloster Forest Products is slated to begin manufacturing lumber in May of 2024. For more information:www.Glosterfp.com/

This highly skilled role creates value by performing a variety of electrical systems and maintenance duties, while ensuring maximum facility uptime to meet production goals. This position requires knowledge of and hands-on-experience with the following technologies: instrumentation, electronics, lubrication, hydraulics, power transmission, mechanics, steam,weldingand pneumatics.

Responsibilities:

• Install, troubleshoot,and repair equipment in compliance with plant codes, policies, and procedures
• Respond to all maintenance issues, both mechanical and electrical, throughout the plant
• Undertake preventative maintenance program for equipment.
• Read blueprints, diagrams, and schematic drawings to repair equipment.
• Verify and document repairs made.
• Work any shift, on-call, holidays, weekends, and overtime as needed

Required Skills:

• 1 years ofpreviousmaintenance experience
• Experience with Allen Bradley PLC5 and/or Control Logix
• Knowledge of and experience with hand and power tools
• Mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic knowledge and aptitude
• Experience in an industrial environment with VFDs, PLCs, MCCs, HMIs
• Experience with high voltage (600-23,000 volts)
• Competent with all type power transmission components and troubleshooting
• Be able to pass a basic mechanical assessment test
• Be able to pass a basic hands-on test
• High school diploma or GED Must be able to work nights, weekends, holidays asrequired

Environmental Conditions:

Must be able to tolerate extreme hot, humid, cold, and outdoor conditions. Comfortable working inloudenvironment, around moving machinery, with vibrations and airborne particles (sawdust).